Optician, not an optician.

The optician didn’t see it coming.

Bruce Bergez of Dundas, Ontario has been illegally dispensing eye glasses for the past eight years.

But he is not a licensed optician.

And he has ignored court orders to cease-and-desist.

So a judge says he’s had enough and sentenced Bergez to a year in jail and a 16 million dollar fine.

Bergez’ wife Joanne was also found guilty in the scam.

She will serve her sentence once her husband is released.

The couple had a chain of 23 stores under the name of “Great Glasses” around Ontario.

The stores are now being sold off.

Managers at one store in suburban Toronto want to keep the business using a different name.

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/896780--unlicensed-optician-jailed-for-flouting-court-orders

Vacktang Makhniashvilli

After a stabbing in the east end of Toronto on Greenwood Ave. and Queen St., missing teen Mariam Makhniashvilli’s father, Vacktang Makhniashvilli turned himself in to police.
Mariam went missing a year ago. She was last seen on September 14, last year walking to school. This was the second time in more than six months that her father had been linked to a stabbing.